LANCASTER - The son of Dallas Police Chief David Brown killed a
Lancaster police officer and another man during a Sunday melee that
left three people dead, according to a law enforcement
official.

David Brown Jr., 27, was himself shot and killed by officers,
according to the official.

A law enforcement source who is familiar with the case and who
asked that he not be identified said Brown had been behaving
erratically at the apartment complex where the shootings occurred,
in the 900 block of River Bend Drive near West Pleasant Run Road in
southern Dallas County.

Wearing boxers, sunglasses and no shoes, Brown apparently killed
a man who had just pulled into the complex in his car with his wife
and children.

A short time later, he shot and killed Craig Shaw, a five-year
veteran of the Lancaster police force who was the first officer
called to the scene.

"This community has lost a good officer, a very good officer. We
are heartbroken," Lancaster Police Chief Keith Humphrey said.

Shaw, 37, a father of two, was the first Lancaster officer
fatally shot in the line of duty.

The other man who was killed was 23-year-old Jeremy Jontae
McMillian, according to the Dallas County medical examiner's
office.

The law enforcement official who has knowledge of the case said
that about 5:40 p.m., a car driven by McMillian pulled into a
parking lot at the complex.

McMillian, a family man with two jobs and no criminal history,
was accompanied by his wife, an infant and another small child.
They were headed to his sister's house for Father's Day dinner.

It is unclear whether McMillian knew Brown.

A man later identified as Brown approached the driver's side and
fired a couple of rounds, striking McMillian in the neck and head.
The gunman fired several times more at the driver's side of the
car, narrowly missing McMillian's wife and children.

Carmena Henderson, 27, a long-time friend of McMillian's, said
he attended A. Maceo Smith High School in Dallas. She said he
worked at a Lancaster auto repair shop and a Dollar General
store.

"He's never been in trouble a day in his life," she said. "He
goes to work, he comes home. He just had a baby. He don't run in
the streets, that's not him."

She said McMillian's son was born about a month ago and that he
had appeared to be particularly happy in recent days.

"He was an innocent bystander that got killed for no reason,"
Henderson said. "This is all senseless."

After shooting McMillian, Brown stalked back and forth to his
apartment at least twice, the law enforcement source said. Brown
eventually retrieved a rifle from the trunk of a Dodge Stratus,
then got into the Stratus.

As sirens began to sound with the approach of police, and as
bystanders were yelling and screaming, he backed the car out and
began to leave the apartment complex.

Shaw, the first officer there, tried to stop Stratus after
witnesses told him the shooter was driving away, the law
enforcement source said.

Brown then stopped, got out of his car, and fired at the
officer's car.

Shaw returned fire, firing many rounds.

It is not clear if Brown was hit at that point, the law
enforcement source said. Brown then got back in the car and began
firing again from inside the vehicle.

Shaw was hit in the head.

Other officers, who by then had arrived on the scene, returned
fire, striking the Brown repeatedly. He died at the scene.

"Officers responded to the apartment complex and started looking
for the shooter," Kim Leach, a Dallas County sheriff's department
spokeswoman, said earlier. "At the time, the suspect turned and
shot one of the officers, killing him. Another officer returned
fire at the suspect and shot and killed him."

Earlier in the day, there had been a call regarding Brown
causing a disturbance at the swimming pool at the complex.

Humphrey said Shaw was one of the top-rated officers in his
department, a "well-liked, very caring, very giving, selfless, hard
worker … [who] lost his life defending the citizens of
Lancaster."

Throughout the evening, dozens of area residents remained
gathered beyond crime scene tape. Officers were seen embracing one
another at the scene.

There appeared to be three crime scenes in different areas of
the apartment complex. At one scene, a vehicle was covered in blue
tarp and an unmarked police car could be seen a short distance
away.

A second scene, near the swimming pool, appeared focused on a
red sport utility vehicle. The third scene, at the rear of the
complex, was centered on a white four-door vehicle that appeared to
have crashed next to a Dumpster.

Officers from several area police departments were assisting in
the investigation.

Chief Brown could not be reached. First Assistant Chief Charlie
Cato, Brown's second in command, confirmed the death in a prepared
statement, which he read late Sunday night at Dallas police
headquarters.

The chief said in an interview earlier this year that he was
proud of the way his son, also a father, grew after a 2003 incident
where he was arrested on suspicion of selling marijuana.

"I'm much more impressed when you make mistakes, how you respond
to it," Brown said in May.

At the time, he said his son was gainfully employed.

For Brown, the death of his only son on Father's Day is the
latest in a line of personal tragedies.

In 1988, his police academy classmate and former partner Walter
Williams was fatally shot in the line of duty. Three years later,
his younger brother, Kelvin Brown, was killed in the Phoenix area
by drug dealers.

Brown, who also has two daughters, has said increased crime in
his native Oak Cliff neighborhood played a key role in leading him
to become a Dallas police officer in 1983.

"We don't know all of the facts of the incident at this time,"
Cato said in his statement. "Chief Brown asks that the Dallas
community keep his family in their prayers this evening and in the
days to come as his family tries to comprehend the circumstances
surrounding this tragic incident."

Staff Writer Rudolph Bush contributed to this report. HOW YOU
CAN HELP

An account has been established at Chase Bank, and donations can
be made to the Craig Shaw Trust Fund at any branch. The Lancaster
branch is at 1522 Pleasant Run Road.

Donations can be made with the Assist The Officer Foundation. Go
to www.atodallas.org, click on donate, enter the amount of the
donation and note that the donation is for Craig Shaw.

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